AI Quant · Singapore
Zhong Peixiang
Building at the intersection of quantitative AI, natural language processing, recommendation systems, and applied machine learning.
Currently at Barclays. Previously at OKX, Lazada / Alibaba, and Nanyang Technological University.
About
I am an AI Quant based in Singapore. My work spans applied AI in industry and research across NLP, recommendation systems, affective computing, and machine learning. I earned my PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Selected publications
Keyword-Guided Neural Conversational Model
AAAI 2021 · Open-domain conversational modeling with explicit keyword guidance.
Towards Persona-Based Empathetic Conversational Models
EMNLP 2020 · Empathetic response generation with persona grounding.
EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Regularized Graph Neural Networks
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing · Best Paper.
Knowledge-Enriched Transformer for Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 · Emotion detection with knowledge-aware modeling.
Recent updates
- 2026Joined Barclays, Singapore.
- 2024Joined OKX, Singapore.
- 2023Received Best Paper recognition at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
- 2021Completed PhD oral defense.
- 2021Three papers accepted to AAAI 2021.